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Or you could bring a paper notebook and pen.

I've experienced this too. Apparently, Google Chrome on OS X gets labeled Opera/Win XP by Facebook. I was paranoid for a little while, wondering how these hackers kept tracking me around the world with that browser/os combo.

If you're looking to hire a logo or icon designer, Dribble is the place to be. However, crafting the perfect 300x400 teaser has little to do with web design.

Do you want to hire a window decorator, or someone who will help you solve the hard problem of making your app easier to use? Think carefully. You might not want a real web designer. A graphic designer is certainly a safer hire--they won't futz with your codebase, anyway!

Do you use Chrome? You can list this search engine as a custom search engine in Preferences > Basics > Manage Search Engines...

Add a new search engine -> Hacker News

Keyword -> hn

Url with %s in place of query -> http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%s

You can do the same thing with a keyword bookmark in Firefox.

I've been searching HN all this time with a custom Google search including "site:news.ycombinator.com". I'll have to see if this is better. Google offers results filtered by date, which is really nice, since technology moves so incredibly fast.

This the difference between introversion and extroversion. While you enjoy the company of your teammates, others may prefer to work independently.

The freedom to work from home doesn't mean you have to be cooped up inside your house. You can work from cafes, parks, anywhere and everywhere with wi-fi. Sick of the same restaurants and bars? Take a weekend flight to Europe and work from there. It's the sort of romantic nonsense that some of us find appealing.

As far as electronic signing goes, I've had clients use RightSignature. It's not free, but it's much more painless than PDF signatures.

Along with perfect visual and coding skills, "The Valley" wants designers in-house and under control. If companies want to hire talent, they need to be more willing to hire remotely. What's holding them back is the irrational fear of losing control. "How can I make sure he's working a full eight hours a day?" "What if he drops off the face the earth?"

Interface design can be done from anywhere on the globe. It's silly to restrict your hires only to locals or those desperate enough to relocate.

The anachronism that is http://hoveringartdirectors.tumblr.com offers a glimpse at the absurdity (and unintentional hilarity) of working in-house. How is hovering more efficient than viewing the design on your own monitor? Which is a more realistic use-case of your application? Actually using the app yourself, or standing by someone and having them show you?

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Web UI designer - HTML5/CSS3/JS - from concept to finished product, no bullshit.

Experienced working with developers, version control, template languages, Sass, Stylus, etc++ across time zones.

Portfolio site -> http://nylira.com

It's okay. It a bit generic and sounds a lot like "Oblivious" or "Obvious" -- but since it's not a consumer-facing brand, you should be fine.

Low contrast text does not a design list make.

The entire .link div should be a link. Regions with hover states that appear to be links should be links. You can absolutely position the date and username links over the main link, if you have to.

It's a good start though.

Youth hostels.

I like USAA.

It's ostensibly a bank for those employed by the US armed forces (or related to someone in the service), but any American can freely open checking and savings accounts. If you qualify for a credit card and insurance, you can cash checks by taking a picture with your cellphone.

Amazing online interface (I design interfaces professionally, and theirs is one of the best I've used), iPhone/Android apps, online bill pay, no minimum balance required, free overdraft protection, and a refreshing lack of random fees like those I've encountered at Chase.

The only local USAA branch is in Texas, but they reimburse ATM fees (up to $15 a month, I think). I've been traveling around the world for an entire year and have had no problems. Customer service is fantastic.

> $15 per audio hour may seem low, especially considering that one hour of audio may take up to 4 hours to transcribe. But when you look at the conversion rate, it’s not that bad. $1 USD converts to 83 Kenyan Shillings. I paid around $800 total for the transcribing, which converts to 66,400 Shillings. That’s about a month’s worth of rent in Nairobi, the largest city and capital of Kenya.

This bothers me. Yeah, rent and food is going to be cheap in Kenya, but an iPad will cost the same. There's a good chance it'll be costlier because of import taxes.

Of course, this is a unique case where transcriber had no feedback. In general though, you shouldn't be paying someone based on your opinion of their cost of living. It demonstrates a lack of respect, and shows that you don't treat them as an equal human being.

Maybe it's idealistic nonsense.

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Clean, minimal aesthetic. Experienced with multiple startups.

Say hello: http://nylira.com

I wish the metric system was base-12. It's so close to perfect.

This is an incredibly awkward title. And they're wondering why more women aren't in our industry?

In case someone is actually looking for a UI guy, here's some shameless self-promotion: http://nylira.com

This is a straw man. Interpolated tweening frames are not the same as actual frames with new content.

It may look like trash, but--then again--so do upscaled images.

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Remote only. Nomadic, currently in Berlin.

I'm a designer who code in vi and track changes with git. I've worked with Rails, Django, web.py, node.js startups and associated templating languages. My CSS preprocessor of choice is Stylus.

Get in touch if you have an interesting project.

Portfolio - http://nylira.com

320K is a lot, no question. This project hasn't been released to public yet, and there are areas to optimize.

Keep in mind that this only 42k gzipped.

At some point, the amount of CSS complexity becomes best handled by a preprocessor.

Stylus is great: http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/

I made a post about it, and personally prefer it to Sass and Less: http://nylira.com/stylus-the-revolutionary-successor-to-css/ The hardcore abbreviation mixins in my post seem to offend some coders. When you work in CSS and HTML hours every day though, every character saved adds up to a huge productivity boost.

My current project has 30 directories with 73 partial Sass files, which compile down to one 320kb file.

As to your question, I organize my partials based on controller and url structure.

The new Chromium logo looks good, while the new Chrome logo looks fake. The muddied blending between green and red looks awful, and can't be taken seriously.

You can also see how the subtle highlights are done far better in the new Chromium one. It looks like someone just slapped low-opacity radial gradients on the Chrome version.

Aren't programmers more likely to search for relevant libraries for coffee-making and stitch them together?

I love the slimmer scrollbars. Unfortunately, it also makes apparent the massive amount of wasted space in the Back/Forward toolbar.

I got a Dribbble shot of a Twitter login button, and I was very confused for a moment.

How are these posts getting on the front page? The content both shallow and banal.

Designers should write their own HTML and CSS if they care so much about alignment and margins. It's difficult to know the limits of your medium if all you do is make PSDs.

What's worse than coders who can't design and designers who can't code are coders who can't code and designers who can't design. I've met an unfortunate number of those.

There's less cognitive overhead in processing these renderings because there's less stuff to pay attention to. A photograph tends to record everything, which can be overwhelming if you're looking for select landmarks.

Also, the real world tends to be more drab and polluted than these cheery 100% saturation renderings.

Syberia I & II, The Longest Journey/Dreamfall are a couple of amazing adventure game series. Neither are exactly recent (2004 and 2007 respectively), but they're still full of atmosphere and enjoyable to play.

It's a great concept, but Explore doesn't have enough data--rather, cheap tickets--to be actually useful. If you don't mind doing multiple searches, http://matrix.itasoftware.com is much better at finding deals.

This the site he designed: http://www.kamikazecookery.com/

The blog that's linked uses a popular Wordpress theme.